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Dr. Kerry K. Wilks
Curriculum Vitae
Dept. of Modern & Classical Languages & Literatures 16 S. Hampton Rd.
Wichita State University Eastborough, KS 67208
1845 N. Fairmount St. Box 11 (316) 253-9915
Wichita, KS 67260
(316) 978-6003
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Spanish Literature, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2004.
Oral exam: Comprehensive exam in Peninsular and Latin American literature
Field exams: Golden Age Theater; Twentieth-Century Theater: Latin America and Spain
Dissertation: “‘Tan fáciles son mis lazos de romper?’: Circe, the Seventeenth Century Theatrical Enchantress”
Adviser: Professor Frederick A. de Armas
M.A. Spanish, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, 1996.
Auburn University Study Abroad Program, Colegio de España. Salamanca, Spain, 1995.
Thesis: “The Integration of Art and Music in Camilo José Cela’s Mazurca para dos muertos”
Adviser: Professor Linda Glaze
B.A. International Studies, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, 1991.
Marquette University Study Abroad, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Madrid, Spain, 1990.
Senior Thesis: “The Transition to Democracy in Spain: After the Franco Regime”
TEACHING EXPERIENCE and CREDENTIALS
Assistant Professor, Wichita State University, 2004-present.
Lecturer, University of Chicago, 2000-2004.
Lecturer, University of Chicago Civilization Program in Barcelona, Spain, 2002.
Lector, University of Chicago, 1997-2000.
Instructor, Auburn University at Montgomery, 1996.
Instructor, Auburn University, 1994-1996.
Secondary Teacher, Bob Jones High School, Alabama, 1993-1994.
Teacher Certification, Secondary Education, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Spanish, French,
Political Science, 1993.
TEACHING and RESEARCH INTERESTS
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Literature; Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature; Twentieth-Century Latin American Theater
COURSES TAUGHT AT WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY
Graduate Courses: Women Writers of Spain and Mexico; Golden Age Theater; Twentieth-Century Theater; Seminar in Spanish Literature; Spanish Literature in Translation
Undergraduate Courses: Intermediate Spanish Grammar and Composition, Advanced Spanish Grammar, Intermediate Conversation, Introduction to Spanish Literature, Spanish Civilization, Spanish Literature in Translation
PUBLICATIONS
ARTICLES and BOOK CHAPTERS:
“Circe’s Swan: The Poet, The Patron and the Power of Bewitchment.” Ovid in the Age of Cervantes.
Ed. Frederick de Armas. Toronto: U of Toronto Press, Forthcoming.
“El Caballero de Olmedo de Lope de Vega: Definiendo la tragedia española en los Estados Unidos.”
Hacia la tragedia áurea: Lecturas para un nuevo milenio. Eds. Enrique García Santo-Tomás, et.
al. Frankfurt, Madrid: Vervuert Iberoamericana, 2008. 373-82.
“Play Text and Directorial Decisions in Calderón's Céfalo y Pocris: A Case Study in Textual Analysis for
Production.” Kerry Wilks and Celia Braxton. Comedia Performance 4.1 (2008): 51-82.
“Ecos de Goya en Mazurca para dos muertos.” La obra del literato y sus alrededores: estudios críticos en torno a Camilo J. Cela. Ed. Eloy E. Merino y Carlos X. Ardavín Trabanco. Madrid:UCJC
and Fundación Camilo José Cela, 2006. 165-87.
“Ekphrasis and Enchantment: Images of Circe in Italy and Spain during the Renaissance.” Cahiers Parisiens/Parisian Notebooks 1(2005): 138-48.
“Interpreting Ideas: Court Theatre’s Production of Life’s a Dream.” Bulletin of the Comediantes 53.1
(2001): 57-82.
“The Theater of the World: Staging Baroque Hierarchies.” Anita Hagerman-Young and Kerry Wilks. The
Theatrical Baroque. Chicago: The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, 2001. 36-45.
“Camilo José Cela’s Mazurca para dos muertos: Why Mazurka?” Cincinnati Romance Review 18
(1999): 200-07.
EDITIONS:
Estas primicias del ingenio. Jóvenes cervantistas en Chicago. Ed. Francisco Caudet and Kerry Wilks.
Madrid: Castalia, 2003. Reviewed in Espéculo 26 (www.ucm.es/info/especulo/numero26/primicia.html)
WORKS IN PROGRESS
“Redrawing the Funes y Villalpando Family Tree: Revising Latassa's Nineteenth Century Literary
History.” Article.
“Imitatio and Authorial Anxiety in Collaborative Playwriting.” Article.
El golfo de las sirenas. Baltasar Funes de Villalpando. Critical Edition.
LECTURES and CONFERENCE PAPERS
“What I Do During My Summer ‘Vacations’: Trial and Error in Archival Research.” Manuscripts,
Editions, Translations: Roundtable Discussion of Textual Issues and Early Modern Spanish Theater. Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA, December 2008.
“Lope de Vega’s La Circe: A Metamorphosis of The Metamorphoses.” Renaissance Society of America,
Chicago, IL, April 2008.
“Innovative or Irreverent?: El lindo don Diego as Pedogogical Tool in Zaragoza (2007).” Association of
Hispanic Classical Theater Conference, El Paso, TX, March 2008.
“El Caballero de Olmedo de Lope de Vega: Definiendo la tragedia española en los Estados Unidos.”
Teatro Español Clásico: Hacia la Tragedia.” Franke Institute for the Humanities / Instituto Cervantes, Chicago, IL, November 2007.
“Baltasar Funes de Villalpando's El golfo de las sirenas and El vencedor de si mismo." Modern Language
Association, Philadelphia, PA, December 2006.
“Camilo José Cela’s Los caprichos de Francisco de Goya y Lucientes: A Twentieth Century Construction
of Renaissance Paragone.” Word Image and Ideology in Habsburg Europe: Early Modern Image and Text Conference, Denver, CO, October, 2006.
“La comedia en Chicago: las dificultades de representar el papel del Gracioso.” Symposium: Staging the
Spanish Classics, Instituto Cervantes, Chicago, IL, October 2006.
"Burlesca in Calderón's Céfalo y Pocris: The Compañía de La Puerta de Menella's Production." Joint
AHCT/AEEA Conference, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., October 2006. (Co-presenter, Celia Braxton)
“Aragonese Treasures: In Search of Baltasar Funes y Villalpando.” Association of Hispanic Classical
Theater Conference, El Paso, TX, March 2006.
“Calderonian Oneirics in Egon Wolff’s Los invasores.” Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, October 2005.
“Cervantes and His Legacy.” An Evening With Cervantes and Don Quijote.” Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, September 2005.
“Imitatio and Anxiety:Collaborative Play Writing and the Comedia.” Association of Hispanic Classical
Theater Conference, El Paso, TX, March 2005.
“Ekphrasis and Enchantment: Images of Circe in Italy and Spain during the Renaissance.” Symposium:
Ekphrasis in the Age of Cervantes, Paris, France, November 2004.
“From Page to Stage: Literary Tropes and Reader Response Theory in Calderón de la Barca’s La cisma
de Inglaterra.” Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies, Chicago, IL, June 2004.
“Deconstructing History through Mythology: Anne Boleyn as Circe in Calderón’s La cisma de
Inglaterra.” Modern Language Association, San Diego, CA, December 2003.
“El golfo de las sirenas: Baltasar Funes y Villalpando’s Adaptation of Calderón’s First Zarzuela.”
Association of Hispanic Classical Theater Conference, El Paso, TX, March 2003.
“Circe and Ulysses: Political Implications in Calderón’s Version of a Classical Tale.” Mountain
Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Furman University, Greenville, SC, October 2002.
“Dakin Matthews and Michael Halberstam’s Spite for Spite: How to Stage a Successful Comedia.”
Association of Hispanic Classical Theater Conference, El Paso, TX, March 2001.
“Interpreting Ideas: Court Theatre’s Production of Life’s a Dream.” American Calderón: A Millennial
Symposium in Celebration of Pedro Calderón de la Barca, 1600-2000, Chicago, IL, April 2000.
“Rape Is Not Love: JoAnne Akalaitis Confronts Rosaura in La vida es sueño.” Association of Hispanic
Classical Theater Conference, El Paso, TX, March 2000.
“Camilo José Cela’s Mazurca para dos muertos: Why Mazurka?” Cincinnati Conference on Romance
Languages and Literatures, Cincinnati, OH, May 1998.
HONORS and FELLOWSHIPS
Travel grant from the Office of Research Administration, Wichita State University, 2008.
“Rescuing Baltasar Funes y Villalpando From Obscurity: Bringing The Siren’s Abyss (1685) to Light.”
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Summer Award, Wichita State University, 2008.
Travel grant from the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United
States Universities, 2006.
Award for Research/Creative Projects Summer, Wichita State University, 2005.
Louis Cooper Memorial Dissertation Fellowship. The University of Chicago, 2002.
The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning Grant. Consortium, 1998.
University Fellowship, The University of Chicago, 1997-2000.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Board Member, Association of Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT), 2008 – present.
Co-chaired Graduate Student Papers Selection and Award Committee for the AHCT, December 2006 –
present.
Session Chair, AHCT Conference, El Paso, TX, March 2008, 2007, 2006,
Session Chair, Ovid in the Age of Cervantes I, Renaissance Society of America Conference, Chicago, IL,
April 2008.
Actor for staged reading of “The All-American Patriot Act,” an adaptation of Cervantes’s entremés at
AHCT conference, El Paso, TX. March 2008.
Organized Dr. David Pasto workshop: “Movement and Manners in the Spanish Golden Age,” Wichita
State University, Wichita, KS. April 2007.
Panel respondent for “Valor, Outrage, and Woman at Oklahoma City University.” AHCT Conference, El
Paso, TX. March 2007.
Actor for two staged readings of Cervantes’s entremeses (“Electing a Sherrif in Podunk County Florida”
and “El juez de los divorcios”) at AHCT conference, El Paso, TX. March 2007.
Guest speaker for post-show discussion at Oklahoma City University’s staging of Valor, Outrage, and
Woman, Oklahoma City, OK. February 2007.
Actor for staged reading of Cervantes’s entremés “Los habladores” at AHCT conference, El Paso, TX.
March 2006.
Actor for staged reading of Cervantes’s “El retablo de las maravillas” at AHCT conference, March 2005.
Session Chair, “Golden Age Spanish Literature,” MIFC Conference, Wake Forest University, NC.
October 2005.
Session Chair, Ekphrasis in the Age of Cervantes, Paris, France. November 2004.
Course Assistant, Frederick De Armas’s NEH Summer Seminar Recapturing the Renaissance: Cervantes
and Italian Art. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. 2003.
Cultural Coordinator, Instituto Cervantes, Chicago, IL. 2001.
Intern, Court Theatre, Chicago, IL. 2000.
Symposium Organizer, We’re Talking Classics Symposium Series: Translators and Spanish Golden Age
Scholars. Court Theatre, Chicago, IL. October 1999.
Dramaturg, Staged Reading of The Great Theatre of the World. Court Theatre, Chicago, IL. 1999.
Associate Dramaturg, Life’s a Dream. Court Theatre, Chicago, IL. 1999.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Spanish Division Director, 2004-present.
Search Committee Chair, Modern & Classical Languages & Literatures (Instructor of Spanish, Assistant
Professor of Spanish), Spring 2007, Fall 2007.
Search Committee member, Modern & Classical Languages & Literatures (Instructor of Spanish,
Associate Professor of Spanish), 2005, 2007-2008.
Faculty Advisor, Sigma Delta Pi, 2004-2008. Honor chapter award for 2005-2006 and 2006-2007.
Humanities Representative to Graduate Council, Spring 2006, 2006-2007, Spring 2008.
Graduate School Fellowship and Awards Committee, 2007-present.
Departmental Scholarship Committee, 2005-present.
Medieval/Renaissance Certificate Committee, 2005-present.
Faculty Senate, 2006.
Departmental Honors Committee, 2004.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Founding Member, Early Modern Image and Text Association, since 2004.
Member, Modern Language Association, since 2003.
Member, Association of Hispanic Classical Theater, since 2000.